3 December 2020 Julianna Baggott Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.
3 December 2020 Anne Sullivan Macy We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
3 December 2020 Luigi Barzini To put up a show is to face life’s injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
3 December 2020 Luigi Pirandello Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
3 December 2020 Camille Paglia Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west’s stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art’s assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
3 December 2020 Richard Hofstadter The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
3 December 2020 George Berkeley That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
3 December 2020 Robert Creeley Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it’s so grimly brutal!
3 December 2020 Charles Kettering The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
3 December 2020 Joe Shuster In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show – that was before TV – and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it’s all come true.
3 December 2020 Claude Bernard Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
3 December 2020 Mark Ruffalo I don’t like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it’s your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
3 December 2020 Robert Collier The source and center of all man’s creative power… is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
3 December 2020 Anais Nin There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
3 December 2020 J. G. Ballard I don’t think it’s possible to touch people’s imagination today by aesthetic means.
3 December 2020 Isaac D'Israeli To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius – the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
3 December 2020 R. D. Laing Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
3 December 2020 Ursula K. Le Guin My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
3 December 2020 Carlos Fuentes I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
